Sean Bennett

“Total Recall but you know it’s fake” is such a great summary of what this industry aspires to. Dystopia but shittier.

Such a striking photo opportunity from an administration full of people who made a huge fuss about how pulling down some crummy Confederate statues “erased history”. But there’s no contradiction here: it’s all part of the construction of the historical narrative they prefer.

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call” Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.” But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago. “The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Everyone grows up thinking the stuff they were exposed to as a child was the best, but it’s a headfuck to’ve grown up with what may objectively really be the greatest filmmaker of all time scored by the greatest film composer of all time with posters drawn by the greatest poster artist of all time.

Drew Struzan painting of a young George Lucas, with perfectly coiffed hair, holding a camera over his shoulder. He is surrounded by Star Wars characters.

Drew Struzan painting of a distinguished George Lucas, flanked by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Indiana Jones.

Pouring one out for Drew Struzan.
Here are his sexy George Lucas paintings.

Compilation image of 12 Drew Struzan-painted Indiana Jones book covers.

Drew Struzan's Indiana Jones book covers. Need to work harder on tracking these down.

My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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This is happening. Musk's lawyers tried to say his statements about Autopilot might have been deepfaked, in a case he settled almost as soon as the judge stopped laughing

www.reuters.com/legal/elon-o...

Elon Musk Has Been Promising Self-Driving Cars For 10 Years [Update - We Are Now On Year 11] - Jalopnik Elon Musk has been promising self-driving cars are right around the corner for the last decade. And what a decade it’s been! Full of scandal, intrigue, and poorly manufactured cars and car accessories...

you all keep posting "elon musk says he'll make AI video game" and i just keep seeing

I’ll bet another twenty the genre changes between now and whatever passes for a launch.

Rare Halloween Film ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Makes Streaming Debut on Disney+ Today It’s a Halloween treat! For the first time ever, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie Something Wicked This Way Comes finally arrives on streaming today, exclusively on Disney+.  The 1983 ...

For the first time, Disney’s rare, out-of-print gateway horror movie SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) finally arrived on streaming today, now playing exclusively on Disney+:

The analogy she gives in this is really, really powerful. Please give it a full watch all the way through.

honestly this is the vibe in every major vocation right now

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

I think a lot of people feel like this (I do too.)

If your messaging leads your partisans to despair en masse, it's shit messaging, whatever your polls say about the median voter.

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation

Not giving me $10M dollars also hastens the antichrist so put your money where your mouth is bro

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CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right?

IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If—

CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother?

IKARI: Look, let me answer the question.

CHOTINER: Sure.

As tech bros dismantled government services, Wired helped civil servants raise the alarm from the beginning, shaping the later national conversation. They went so far above and beyond their duty as an industry magazine.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Exclusive | U.S. Government Is Expected to Get Multibillion-Dollar Fee in TikTok Deal The fee would be the latest example of the government getting paid for involvement in private-sector deals.

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

this is my choice for skeet of the year